Paraffin (production)

The activity generating the emissions is paraffin production. The reference product is paraffin. Paraffin is an organic mixture of hydrocarbons (C20-C40) derived from petroleum, coal and oil shale. It is solid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure. It is modelled as a pure substance. On a consumer level, is used in the following products: lubricants and greases, adhesives and sealants and polishes and waxes. On industrial sites, the substance is used for the manufacture of products in the following sectors: adhesives and sealants, coating products, inks and toners, laboratory chemicals, chemicals, rubbers and polymers. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/8095/documentation.